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Recent Examples of avalanche
Noun
November is almost upon us, which means the avalanche of Black Friday beauty savings is, too. Annie Blackman, Allure, 16 Oct. 2024 Jenna Bush Hager reacted to her longtime friend and co-host’s retirement announcement with an avalanche of tears Thursday. Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2024
Verb
And many of those paths, some of which are accessible from the Humphreys Peak trail, will avalanche every year. Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2021 Many of these rocks have avalanched from the walls of steep mountains. Anchorage Daily News, 16 Nov. 2019 See all Example Sentences for avalanche 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avalanche
Noun
  • Both comic and series have suffered a similar fate — being buried in a landslide of Too Much Stuff — and both are clever little delights that deserve to be remembered.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • When Maduro refused to concede defeat, the opposition demonstrated impressive vigilance and organization, presenting copies of the official tallies from over 80 percent of the country’s polling stations to demonstrate that their candidate, Edmundo González, had won in a landslide.
    Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The company is negotiating with lenders to refinance its debt obligations and anticipates an influx of capital by the end of the fourth quarter of 2024.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Tensions began after Israel's establishment in 1948, which led to an influx of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Valor recovered the ensuing onside kick and ran out the clock after that as Regis fell a win short of the quarterfinals for the second year in a row.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
  • That’s in part because Democrats fell short in their bid to flip enough battleground districts in Southern California and the Central Valley to help the national party win a majority.
    Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Questions about the state’s rehab capacity also remain, if Proposition 36 works as intended and adds a flood of people into the treatment pipeline.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Among other things, Proposition 4 would set aside $3.8 billion in new bond revenue for water quality improvement and projects aimed at mitigating the effects of floods and droughts, both of which are more pronounced as California ping pongs between wet and dry rainy seasons.
    Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Acknowledge your accomplishments—and prepare for the overflow of blessings during this era of your life.
    Essence, Essence, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Integer Overflow Sanitizer does the same as above but in relation to integers, or numbers, being too large or too small and enabling an overflow exploit.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Twelve years after that, at the age of 32, she was killed when her second husband’s convertible skidded to avoid a truck and plunged off a wet bridge, flipping into a river.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2024
  • And then the Mets outfielder Mookie Wilson nudged a bouncer toward Buckner, whose glove closed too soon, as the ball—and the game—skidded just past it.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But this close look at the events of the early 1930s suggests the U.S. is much better positioned than Germany was to avoid the slide into authoritarianism for one critical reason.
    Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Khai was also featured sitting beside her mom on a rollercoaster before the third slide featured her hugging Mickey Mouse.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The lookalike thing feels like an inoffensive trend—a local frenzy that harms nobody, a deluge of unseriousness.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
  • But amid this deluge of goodwill and generosity pouring into western North Carolina, something sinister was also brewing: misinformation and outright false accusations about federal relief efforts, particularly about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
    Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024

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“Avalanche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avalanche. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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